Games like Offworld Trading Company
If Offworld Trading Company is your kind of game, the closest matches are Northgard: Definitive Edition, The Settlers: New Allies and Kingdoms Reborn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast paced strategic depth, competitive and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Offworld Trading Company is a 2016 real-time strategy game set on Mars where players compete purely through economic warfare rather than combat. Developed by Mohawk Games and published by Stardock Entertainment, the game tasks players with building profitable companies by managing resources, manipulating markets, and striking black-market deals while prices constantly fluctuate based on every competitor's actions. Reviewers highlight the fast-paced strategic depth and the dry humor of its corporate satire setting. Players describe it as competitive and stressful, with randomly generated maps ensuring high replayability. The game supports online co-operative play and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, currently priced at $29.99 USD and holding a 78% positive rating from over 2,600 Steam reviews.
About Offworld Trading Company: Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
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Shares resource management and a competitive mood with Offworld Trading Company.
Top pick for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Offworld Trading Company.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
The Settlers: New Allies
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Second-strongest match for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Offworld Trading Company.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Kingdoms Reborn
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Shares resource management with Offworld Trading Company.
Third-strongest match for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Offworld Trading Company.
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Frozenheim
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Ranked #4 for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Offworld Trading Company.
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The Colonists
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Shares resource management with Offworld Trading Company.
Ranked #5 for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Offworld Trading Company.
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Anno 117: Pax Romana
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Ranked #6 for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Offworld Trading Company.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Anno 1800
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Shares a contemplative mood with Offworld Trading Company.
Ranked #7 for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Offworld Trading Company.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Dummynation
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Ranked #8 for Offworld Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Offworld Trading Company.
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.
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Satisfactory
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Shares a contemplative mood with Offworld Trading Company.
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Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Factorio
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Power Grid
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Shares resource management and a competitive mood with Offworld Trading Company.
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Archipelago
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AirMech
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Offworld Trading Company at current Steam store prices.
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Priced ~83% under Offworld Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Offworld Trading Company.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Offworld Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Offworld Trading Company.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Offworld Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Offworld Trading Company.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Offworld Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Offworld Trading Company.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Offworld Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Offworld Trading Company.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Virtual Cottage
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Magic Archery
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Frequently asked about Offworld Trading Company
- Does Offworld Trading Company run on Steam Deck?
- Offworld Trading Company is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Offworld Trading Company cost?
- Offworld Trading Company is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Offworld Trading Company have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Offworld Trading Company supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Offworld Trading Company?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Offworld Trading Company are Northgard: Definitive Edition, The Settlers: New Allies, Kingdoms Reborn.
- Who developed Offworld Trading Company?
- Offworld Trading Company was developed by Mohawk Games and published by Stardock Entertainment.
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